{"683452":{"#nid":"683452","#data":{"type":"news","title":"The Doctor Is In","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EShao-Yun Hsu kept seeing the same name on research study after research study: \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/me.gatech.edu\/faculty\/dixon\u0022\u003EBrandon Dixon\u003C\/a\u003E, an engineer at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHsu, a microsurgeon in Taiwan, was trying to figure out how to help her patients with lymphedema \u2014 an uncomfortable and life-limiting swelling in limbs that results from lymph nodes failing to drain fluid from an arm or leg.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHsu had what she thought was a basic question: exactly how much fluid each small lymphatic vessel could drain. And as she dug into the clinical research, she saw Dixon\u2019s name over and over.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESpoiler alert: There\u2019s no good answer to Hsu\u2019s question. At least not yet. But the search has brought her to Atlanta to pursue a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bme.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003Ebiomedical engineering\u003C\/a\u003E Ph.D. in Dixon\u2019s lab.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETogether, they\u2019re \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/reporter.nih.gov\/project-details\/11106116\u0022\u003Eembarking on a new project with support from the National Institutes of Health\u003C\/a\u003E (NIH) that could one day help Hsu\u2019s patients by making a lymph node transplant a viable option for many more people who suffer from lymphedema.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/coe.gatech.edu\/news\/2025\/07\/doctor-is-in\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERead the full story on the College of Engineering website.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMicrosurgeon Shao-Yun Hsu takes treating her patients all the way to Georgia Tech, where she\u2019s getting a Ph.D. and developing biomaterials to restore function \u2014 and quality of life \u2014 for people with lymphedema.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Microsurgeon Shao-Yun Hsu takes treating her patients all the way to Georgia Tech, where she\u2019s getting a Ph.D. and developing biomaterials to restore function \u2014 and quality of life \u2014 for people with lymphedema."}],"uid":"27446","created_gmt":"2025-07-31 20:29:35","changed_gmt":"2025-08-12 19:40:46","author":"Joshua Stewart","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2025-07-31T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-07-31T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"677550":{"id":"677550","type":"image","title":"Brandon-Dixon-Shao-Yun-Hsu-5335-t.jpg","body":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBrandon Dixon, left, and Shao-Yun Hsu are working to improve lymph node transplant surgery, a delicate procedure Hsu spent years training to perform as a microsurgeon in Taiwan. (Photo: Candler Hobbs)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E","created":"1753993790","gmt_created":"2025-07-31 20:29:50","changed":"1753993790","gmt_changed":"2025-07-31 20:29:50","alt":"Brandon Dixon and Shao-Yun Hsu pose in their lab, where they\u0027re working on a project to improve lymph node transplant surgery.","file":{"fid":"261461","name":"Brandon-Dixon-Shao-Yun-Hsu-5335-t.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/07\/31\/Brandon-Dixon-Shao-Yun-Hsu-5335-t.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/07\/31\/Brandon-Dixon-Shao-Yun-Hsu-5335-t.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":567036,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2025\/07\/31\/Brandon-Dixon-Shao-Yun-Hsu-5335-t.jpg?itok=ebKDBnrZ"}}},"media_ids":["677550"],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"73601","name":"lymphedema"},{"id":"23201","name":"brandon dixon"},{"id":"187423","name":"go-bio"},{"id":"187582","name":"go-ibb"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"}],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71891","name":"Health and Medicine"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jstewart@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJoshua Stewart\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr\u003ECollege of Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jstewart@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}